Event:Mentor Me!/2025
Mentor Me!
Mentor Me! is a mentorship programme created by the Tyap Wikimedians User Group to support all Wikimedians, both within the community and the Movement entirely. This year's edition runs from August - December 2025.

Online 
[edit]- A week-long introduction to wiki online:
10/08/2025,
11/08/2025,
12/08/2025,
13/08/2025,
14/08/2025,
15/08/2025, and
16/08/2025 - Weekly classes (special sessions):
23/08/2025,
30/08/2025,
06/09/2025,
20/09/2025,
04/10/2025, and
18/10/2025 - Wikidata online sessions:
26/10/2025,
27/10/2025,
28/10/2025,
29/10/2025,
30/10/2025, and
31/10/2025 - Weekly classes (special sessions):
15/11/2025,
29/11/2025, and
13/12/2025
Time: 07:00 P.M. (W.A.T.)
Venue:
Jitsi Meet
Outreach Dashboard:
Here
In-person 
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Dates:
22/08/2025,
29/08/2025,
05/09/2025,
19/09/2025,
03/10/2025,
17/10/2025,
01/11/2025,
14/11/2025,
28/11/2025, and
12/12/2025
Time: 09:30 A.M. (W.A.T.)
Venue:
AX1, Aliyu Makama Road, by Narayi Junction, Barnawa, Kaduna 800242 , NG
Timetable
[edit]| Online (07:00 PM) |
Presenter | Jitsi Meet Link | YouTube Recording | Link to Learning Resource | |
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| A week-long introduction to wiki online | |||||
| Sun., 10th Aug. 2025 | Friday musa | Know the basic rules of Wikipedia. 1. Wikipedia Basics: Wikipedia Essentials 2. Wikipedia Basics: Editing Basics 3. Wikipedia Basics: Evaluating Articles and Sources | |||
| Mon., 11th Aug. 2025 | Friday musa and Kambai Akau | How-to refreshers 1. Sandboxes and Mainspace | |||
| Tue., 12th Aug. 2025 | Friday musa | How-to refreshers 2. Plagiarism | |||
| Wed., 13th Aug. 2025 | Friday musa and Kambai Akau | How-to refreshers 3. Sources and Citations | |||
| Thur., 14th Aug. 2025 | Friday musa and Kambai Akau | Translating Articles | |||
| Fri., 15th Aug. 2025 (@04:00 PM WAT) |
Friday musa | Wikimedia Commons Contributing Images and Media Files | |||
| Sat., 16th Aug. 2025 | Kambai Akau | More practicals on creating new articles in the English Wikipedia and linking to Wikidata | |||
For more on Wikipedia, see also WikiLearn
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| Date (09:30 AM) |
Presenter | Topic | YouTube Recording | Jitsi Meet Link | Date (07:00 PM) |
Presenter | Topic | YouTube Recording | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly classes | |||||||||
| In-person | Online | ||||||||
| Fri., 22th Aug. 2025 | Friday musa, Kambai Akau | Creating a Template in the English Wikipedia | Sat., 23 Aug. 2025 | King ChristLike |
Wikidata and Beyond: Fundamentals and best practices | ||||
| Fri., 29th Aug. 2025 | Inyor4mr | Developing a Wikipedia article in English (using a Visual editor) | Sat., 30th Aug. 2025 | Igallards7 |
The Importance of Minorities in the Wikimedia Ecosystem | ||||
| Fri., 05 Sept. 2025 | Friday musa and Kambai Akau | Wikimedia articles creation | Sat., 06 Sept. 2025 | Fast-track your language Wikipedia approval on Wikimedia Incubator | |||||
| Fri., 19 Sept. 2025 | Friday musa and Danjuma Anthony | Translating articles into local language(s) on Wikipedia-Tyap | Sat., 20 Sept. 2025 | The Importance of Minority languages in the Wikimedia Ecosystem | |||||
| Fri., 03 Oct. 2025 | Friday musa and Dorcas Atule | Uploading files on Wikimedia Commons | Sat., 04 Oct. 2025 | How Wikipedia Can Preserve Cultural Heritage, Languages, and Traditions: Things That Must be Forever Honoured and Protected. | Presentation Slides | ||||
| Fri., 17th Oct. 2025 | Friday musa, Kambai Akau | Wikipedia editing | Sat., 18th Oct. 2025 | Basics of Translatewiki | |||||
| Online (07:00 PM) |
Presenter | Jitsi Meet Link | YouTube Recording | Link to Learning Resource | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata online sessions | |||||
| Mon., 27th Oct. 2025 | Introduction to SPARQL | ||||
| Wed., 29th Oct. 2025 | Basics of Wikidata Lexemes: How to and Why Put Data About Words into Wikidata | ||||
| Fri., 31st Oct. 2025 | Basic Introduction to Wikifunctions | ||||
For more on Wikidata, see also WikiLearn
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| Date (09:30 AM) |
Presenter | Topic | YouTube Recording | Jitsi Meet Link | Date (07:00 PM) |
Presenter | Topic | YouTube Recording | |
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| Weekly classes | |||||||||
| In-person | Online | ||||||||
| Sat., 01 Nov. 2025 | Kambai Akau and Friday musa | Wikidata's 13th birthday celebration and one-month-long data-a-thon kickstarting | |||||||
| Fri., 14th Nov. 2025 | Sorry, we have cancelled the in-person classes for these three days and are merging them with the Tyap Wiki Bootcamp in-person classes of Sat., Nov. 15 and Dec. 6, 2025. |
Sat., 15th Nov. 2025 | Translation Tool Basics + How to Improve or Fix Broken HTML Syntax | ||||||
| Fri., 28th Nov. 2025 | Sat., 29th Nov. 2025 | Contributing to Wikimedia Commons |
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| Fri., 12th Dec. 2025 | |||||||||
Learning resources reservoires
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Outreach Dashboard Training Libraries
Wikilearn Catalogue
WikiLearn Core Curriculum on Wikimedia Commons
Carla Toro; Anamaria Espinoza; Asaf Bartov; Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (February 7, 2025). "WikiLearn Essentials for Course Creators: Building Community Skills Online session 1" (video). youtube.com. Let's Connect. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
James Gaunt; Anamaria Espinoza; Asaf Bartov; Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (February 18, 2025). "WikiLearn Essentials for Course Creators: Building Community Skills Online session 2" (video). youtube.com. Let's Connect. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
